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Homily - The Battle Within - Nov 2025 - Fr Paul Gardner (Academy)

Homily - The Battle Within - Nov 2025 - Fr Paul Gardner (Academy)

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 This episode features a powerful homily by Father Paul that delves into the internal battle between faith and temptation, using two biblical stories to define the necessary Christian virtue of integrity.

Heroic Integrity in the Face of Death

Father Paul recounts the tragic, yet heroic, biblical story from the Book of Maccabees. A Greek king attempts to force a Jewish mother and her seven sons to abandon their God by compelling them to eat forbidden food (pork).
  • The seven sons, and eventually the youngest, who was a teenager, are brutally tortured and killed in front of their mother for their faith.
  • The youngest son, in a final moment of confidence, chooses to feed his mind ("what I know to be good and true") rather than his fear, knowing his body would be replaced by a "new and better one in the eternal life to come".
  • This act of remaining faithful to God's commandments, even when faced with terrifying death, is held up as the supreme example of the virtue of integrity.
The Battle of the Two Wolves

To understand the daily nature of integrity, Father Paul shares the famous Cherokee legend about the two wolves:
  • An elder tells his grandson there is a war inside him between two wolves: one representing what he knows to be true and good (his mind) and the other representing his emotions and feelings (the things he wants to do).
  • The grandson asks which wolf will win.
  • The elder replies: "Whichever wolf I feed."
Living with Integrity

Father Paul connects this image to the daily reality of the Christian life:
  • Integrity is the choice to "choose what's good regardless of the circumstances".
  • The constant fight within us is between what we know to be right (prayer, study, virtue) and the impulsive emotions that urge us toward immediate comfort or sin.
  • We can choose to feed our minds by doing "repeated actions" of what we know to be true, making it easier to be strong each day.
  • Our minds are strong enough to make the right choice every single day, so we must not become slaves to our emotions.


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